Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in the South East

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 159 168
Rank change year-on-year -61 +9 +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 6 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.091% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.70% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile £494 £316 £321
25th Percentile £546 £385 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £593
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -15.61% +12.86%
75th Percentile £644 £588 £717
90th Percentile £678 £640 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,805 1,136 1,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.48% 31.98% 26.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 748 790
10th Percentile £263 £204 £285
25th Percentile £413 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 44 22
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.25 £18.58
25th Percentile £26.97 £14.75 £21.56
Median hourly rate £53.75 £18.82 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +185.60% -60.38% +75.93%
75th Percentile £82.25 £30.51 £60.95
90th Percentile £102.88 £45.45 £64.73
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the South East

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South East over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -28 2 - - 5
Buckinghamshire -23 1 £575 -11.54%
Thames Valley -48 1 £575 - 6
West Sussex - 1 £459 -
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (83.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (66.67%) Serverless
4 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) AI
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Digital Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) FinOps
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Talend